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Gilder: This Is a Golden Age for Content

August 5 (Bloomberg) — Chairman of George Gilder Fund Management George Gilder discusses cable innovation and the future of technology with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes

America: be warned. A new wave of financial reformers has infiltrated our public institutions at both the state and national levels. A growing army of self-proclaimed activists, philanthropists, and politicians has infiltrated not only the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the FDIC, the Treasury, and other regulatory agencies. This explosive new book from New York Times bestselling author Jay W. Read More ›

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Surprise and Creativity

Why in the world do we need yet another “new” economics? Jamming the libraries and the bookstores of the world are avatars of what must be every variation on the great themes of market and managerial economics. Scores of Nobel Prizes have been awarded for various nugatory refinements of the prevailing ideas. All these schemes, however, fail to answer the Read More ›

George Gilder Is Back with a New Book

This article, published by Forbes, refers to Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: The other early 1980s book that changed the game was Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder (Basic Books). It became the book most frequently cited by President Ronald Reagan and turned systems analysis, as applied to economics, on its head. The rest of the article can be Read More ›

George Gilder Almost Made Me Cry

This article, published by RealClearReligion, discusses Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: I owe a lot to George Gilder, and with his release of Knowledge and Power, that debt has increased significantly. Decades ago, I first read Sexual Suicide, a book that later became Men and Marriage, and which I have read again several times in that form. I was Read More ›

A Spiritual Giant Addresses the Key Issue of Unemployment

The recently elected Pope Francis, who succeeded Benedict XVI five months ago, has taken his first trip abroad to address the World Youth Day celebration in Brazil. Francis set the tone for his trip talking to journalists aboard his plane. “The world crisis is not treating young people well … We are running the risk of having a generation that Read More ›

The Scandal of Computer Security

The U.S. has become a digital civilization. Our industry, defense, medical care, entertainment, and communications all largely rely on information technology. In recent months, it has become increasingly evident that this digital civilization is under attack and that its protective strategies are failing. Everywhere in the news are accounts of computer security hacks. Targets range from The New York Times, Read More ›

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Information, the Entrepreneur, and George Gilder’s New Economic Thinking

Gilder draws on information theory, as developed by the famed mathematician Claude Shannon and others, as a central metaphor for the economy. In Gilder's rendition, information consists of striking surprises conveyed over a quiet, stable channel. Gilder then adapts this metaphor to economic phenomena, including entrepreneurship, finance, the role of government, and income redistribution. Read More ›

Interview: George Gilder on Knowledge and Power

This article, published by PJ Media, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: “Wealth is essentially the accumulation of knowledge,” George Gilder tells me in our new interview. “It requires that government get out of the way, that government not be a noisy force in the economy, distracting entrepreneurs from their creative purposes toward government goals and Read More ›

What Inspires Me

This article, published by LinkedIn, discusses Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: My father read the interview with George Gilder in that August 1981 issue, which impressed him. Gilder had written Wealth and Poverty, a book Ronald Reagan was photographed with, along with giving it to members of his cabinet. Gilder would go on to become Ronald Reagan’s most-quoted living Read More ›